A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

Home › Glossary › Letter J

Juz

World Religion
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

One of the thirty equal sections of the Quran, used to facilitate recitation over a month, especially during Ramadan.

Detailed Definition
Juz’ (plural: ajza’) allows systematic reading—many Muslims complete one juz’ nightly in Taraweeh. In poetry, the juz’ symbolizes measured devotion: a daily portion of light, a spiritual diet. Poets describe the turning of pages at night, the memorizer’s effort, or the child learning juz’ Amma (the 30th) to show how scripture enters life incrementally, shaping thought and tongue through disciplined engagement.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Quranic poem: “Each juz is a sip from the ocean of revelation”; A modern verse: “Reading one juz daily is like walking a mile with the Divine”; A minimalist lyric: “Not chapter, but companion”; A reflection: “The juz system turns Quran into rhythm, not race.”
Additional Notes
A juz’ (plural: ajza’) divides the Quran into 30 parts for recitation over Ramadan (one per night in Tarawih). Each juz’ has no thematic unity but aids memorization and pacing. In madrasas, students track progress by juz’. In poetry, completing a juz’ marks spiritual milestones—Naat poets praise those who “drink the Quran in thirty sips.” For literary scholars, the juz’ system shows how textuality is ritualized—shaping reading practices, oral performance, and communal identity in Islamic cultures, influencing narrative structures in devotional literature.
Also Known As
Juz' Para Section
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